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Windows 7: Half of ram hardware reserved?

What color slot do you have your 2 memory modules (sticks) installed in?

Set your bios to default. Don't use XMP.
Make sure your Dram volts are set to what it states on the side of the module.
I would start with the White Slots and make sure they are pushed all the way in and the clips snap over the modules ends.

Half of ram hardware reserved?

Hardware reserved Memory?I had 2 gb of ddr3 ram installed before, yesterday i added 2 more gb but the system uses only 3.24 gb and the rest is reserved for hardware. I hope it is used for graphics memory but i have an external graphic card of 1 gb video memory. How to release this memory. I have searched many forums and...

Performance & Maintenance

Why is most of my Ram hardware reserved (old noob)Hi guys I am trying to work out why my wife's computer is slowing down. I have noticed over half of my ram is reserved. I have an on board graphics cards Gigabyte 720 and i have portable hard drive as back up. other than that I cannot really think of anything that would be hogging ram. i seem to...

Performance & Maintenance

Problems with RAM/Hardware ReservedIve got a Sony Vaio 64bit laptop dual processor 2.20 GHz. Its been very slow - the computer usage will stay about 70% and memory usage is alwasy >90%?? I looked at resource monitor and:
2300MB hardware reserved
664MB in use
3MB modified
94MB standbye
1MB Free
Currently if I look at the...

Hardware reserved getting ridiculousHi
I have been surfing through these forums and everybody seems to be having these problems with hardware reserved memory but they mostly are talking about having 4 gigs of ram and only being able to use 3 of it or something like that. Now my friend has this problem where his 32 bit windows 7...